Half a month passed in a flash, and soon it was time for the army to go out.

There are no those magnificent expedition ceremonies, because it is too wasteful, and it is not as easy as imagined to transport materials here.

Only one Yazhou is not enough to feed an army of 40,000, so the consumption of these 40,000 troops is supported by the strength of the entire Shu region.

Of course, a Shu land can only feed an army of 40,000, which sounds a little unreliable.

However, considering that various localities have set up standing positions, it is necessary to reserve a certain amount of grain every year, and the rest must not only be used for the army, but also for strategic reserves.

That is to say, the grain currently stored in Yazhou can be used to support the army for at least a year in the event of natural disasters such as drought and floods in Shudi.

In a year's time, the imperial court had already transferred grain support from other places.

Therefore, this hand-operated operation is still very spiritual.

Yazhou is a border area, but Li Jing's location is not the most border.

An army of 40,000 is not much, but it is also the number of two legions, so there is a lot to be done to pull out.

Before dawn, they began to pack up the camp and dismantle the tents or something, but they knew that at noon, the vanguard had already set off for half a day, and all the troops in the camp had not yet left.

Although there are reasons not to rush to the road, it is more about the helplessness of the terrain here.

Roads are often in canyons, and in many places there is only one car to pass, and in some places there is no way to even pass through the car, only one horse can pass.

The mountain tree-lined trail or something, the army naturally won't go, but this kind of road condition still makes Li Jing have to be vigilant.

Because it's a border, it's a place that people don't want to approach, so there's basically no road here.

After a day's march, the vanguard troops had begun to be on alert, and the follow-up troops had begun to set up camp, but the last team to set off had only just left the camp for more than ten miles.

A long snake formation?

The fart is a long snake formation, purely looking for death!

"Order, the front army disperses, camp with all their might, and the rear army must arrive." Looking at the surrounding environment, although he had been prepared, Li Jing still didn't dare to be careless.

Once the opponent attacks at night, although night attacks are not so easy, it sounds like a lot, but the battles that really happened in history were actually just that, and they were not as frequent as imagined.

But the theory is theoretical, in case the enemy really launches a night attack, there is no need to think about anything else, just push down the boulder on the mountain.

Regardless of how many people were killed, it was these boulders that blocked the valley, and it would be difficult for the reinforcements behind them to come back, and it would also greatly hinder their marching speed.

Li Jing didn't dare to gamble, and he didn't have the courage to gamble, so he could only order the rear army to speed up and be tired, which was much better than the calculation of falling into the enemy's army.

For five days in a row, it was a similar situation, the front army was fine, they left early and stopped early, even if they couldn't sleep, at least they didn't have to be tired of hurrying.

However, the rear army was tossed not lightly, whether it was early or late, it was impossible to sleep for a while, at most, it was slower when cleaning up, and it was just a nap after packing, but it was desperate to rush at night.

By the sixth day, things had finally improved.

It's not that there are roads, the situation here is worse than in the grasslands, there are no roads at all.

Compared with before, the terrain here is a little higher, and with the route planned in advance, it is basically possible to achieve an hour or so between the front army and the rear army.

For an army of 40,000 men, it is difficult to imagine an hour between the front and rear armies, but here the situation is already good.

By the tenth day, Li Jing had led his troops to leave Yazhou for a distance of more than 600 miles, and the terrain here was also higher than that of Yazhou, and a small number of soldiers had already reacted weakly, but the reaction was not strong.

Li Jing was not in a hurry, continued to order the march, and found a good place early the next day, at least this place could garrison 40,000 troops.

So, on the eleventh day after leaving the Tang Dynasty, the Tang army, which had not yet seen a single enemy army, chose to rest.

The first is to relieve the fatigue of the march over the past 10 days, so that the troops can guarantee the strongest combat effectiveness at any time, and the second is to let the officers and men who have a weak reaction get used to it a little.

Although this battle should pay attention to speed, but speed is not absolute, there is no need to pursue speed, not to care about more deadly problems, on the contrary, at this time to stop for a day or two, but can make the soldiers more adapted to the environment and climate here.

Although it is a rest, Li Jing cannot rest and recuperate as unscrupulously as the soldiers.

Taking advantage of the time to recuperate, Li Jing gathered his generals together.

Of course, not all the generals have gathered all those people, what if the enemy army suddenly comes?

The 40,000 people were divided into four parts by Li Jing, one part was the 10,000 Chinese army led by himself, the other was the 10,000 rear army led by the deputy general Gao Yang, and the other two were guys who did not leave any reputation in history, and they were not even mentioned in the history books, but they were lucky to become generals, maybe even they did not expect that there would be such a day.

The basic structure is to take 10,000 people as a unit, and there is one general on the top, which is an establishment with the ability to fight alone.

There are two partial generals, each responsible for 4,000 people, and the main general leads 2,000 people to act as a small middle army.

"We've advanced more than 600 miles, and our current position is about here." There was a map hanging in the tent, which was very rough, but everyone could see it, and Li Jing pointed a point on it, indicating where they were now.

In the era when there was no GPS, the only way to determine one's location in such a place was to remember how many miles you walked every day and in which direction you went, so that the results would not be too accurate, but it would not be confusing to find the east, west, north and south.

"In five days at most, the baggage team should go back, and the enemy has not shown their heads." Li Jing said calmly: "However, according to the intelligence, the enemy army is about to move around this area, and the speed of retreat in the past few days has also decreased significantly, and the number of people is not clear for the time being, but it is basically certain that there will probably be a battle here." ”

Li Jing drew circles on the map one after another, and the range was very large, because it was a rough estimate of a place, so it didn't matter whether it was accurate or not.

"The other party wants to exchange space for time to induce us to go deep into the enemy territory, and in this situation, we are indeed going deep into the enemy territory. When the baggage team returns, they probably won't do it, but when they come again, they can't say for sure, maybe the Tubo people have taken a fancy to our baggage? Li Jing then stretched out two fingers, "Two months, our supplies can only last less than two months, if there is a problem on the way to the baggage team, then we may be starved to death here, since the other party has put on an attitude of being strong and clear, it will definitely not be as simple as scaring us." ”

On the first expedition, in order to ensure that the supply was not affected, Li Jing adopted the strategy of accompanying the baggage team, which was a regular arrangement.

The troops are supplied at any time, and the baggage team will only return when the supplies of the baggage team can be brought down by the army, and during this time, the army needs to rely on this material on its body to survive.

So if there is no problem, if there is a problem, the consequences will be very serious.

"Put away your contempt, the old man can tell you that there is a difficult guy on the other side, if you are a little careless, it is very likely that the other party will seize the opportunity, and we can't afford to lose at the moment." Now, Li Jing doesn't plan to hide it, because hiding it won't do them any good.

"General, are we sending a force to hide around the baggage troops so that we can respond?" Gao Yang thought about it and suggested.

Baggage team?

I'm sorry, but the 40,000 people under Li Jing are not equipped with a professional baggage team.

It can be said that these 40,000 people are pure soldiers, and there is not a single idle person.

Due to the geographical environment of Tibet, the carriage and other things are not used at all, and the baggage team is only one person with many horses, just ride on the horse and lead the horse.

Instead of building a baggage team and equipping it with some soldiers to protect it, it is better to directly use the soldiers as a baggage team, which can also save the consumption of the baggage team.

There may be a big problem with the use of this army elsewhere, but this is an army specially prepared for the attack on Tibet, and all the arrangements are prepared for this battle.

"No, when the baggage team comes back, they will choose another route." Li Jing waved his hand, a large number of reconnaissance activities in the early stage were not a joke, just the route of the march, there were many plans.

Although some places are not suitable for the march of large troops, it is still no problem for the baggage team to go, even if the other party is well prepared, it is impossible to know all the routes of their own.

"Since the other party wants to play, then we might as well play with them." Li Jing said with a little playfulness, "We're almost two days away from here, doesn't he want to swallow up our baggage team and then starve us to death?" The old man destroyed his main force first and robbed him of his grain. ”

"General, the last general thinks that we can take on the main attack task...... Qin Huaizhi's eyes lit up, he was too lazy to participate in those schemes, rather than bothering his brain to think about that, it was better to fight for the main attack task.

"General, the last general has served as the vanguard of the way, and the last general is very familiar with the situation, so the last general feels that this main attack task should be handed over to the last general." Liu He, who realized it later, couldn't help but spit and hurriedly spoke.

If you really let Qin Huaizhi snatch the main attack task, he will have no face in the future, the main attack represents not only the order of the attack, the status of the attack, but also the more and less of the merits, a general who only fights will never be able to eat better than a general who is always frontal.

"This time, the old man personally served as the main attacker, and the two of you were one left and one right, and the side was sandwiched ......"